While he’s obviously joking, though this sounds like a bad stereotype he came up with after binge-watching The Wire last weekend or something, this certainly isn’t the only comment he’s given on refusing to enter the modern cell phone era.

Like in 2013, this is what he told CBS about his flip phone

“It’s free of hip dialing,” Jones said (via The Postgame). “You can have some pretty confidential conversations and not get overheard by the camera man by talking into this flip phone.”

Sure, makes sense kind of.

Or what he told 105.3 in 2014

“I don’t know what to say other than I can guarantee AT&T is on the top of that flip phone,” he said (via CNN). “It works for me. I don’t have any butt-dialing with that thing. I know that.”

Stephen Jones had a perfectly reasonable explanation earlier this month for the flip phone

I’ve never seen him use his cell phone for anything but to talk on. I don’t think he’s an e-mailer or a texter or anything like that. I think it’s strictly to talk. We can pull it up for him where he can read e-mails on it, which I think he likes, or read an article when someone pulls it up for him. But he predominantly talks on it. He had that flip phone forever. But I think our good people at AT&T were just saying if we’re going to be the name on your stadium and we’re about technology, we need you to make that switch. That’s not good for business for any of us for you to be carrying around a flip phone.

The relevant part of this interview was really that Jones doesn’t think lawyers working on Colin Kaepernick’s collusion case will find anything on his phone. Because, really, who sends text messages anyway?

A brief history of Jerry Jones explaining why he refused to give up his flip phone

Stephen Jones said this month that AT&T made the Cowboys owner switch to a more modern phone.

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